Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival: The Way of the Mountains and Desert at The Kosciuszko Foundation

Cutting Edge Concerts kicks off their 2023 season with a program featuring two experts of traditional flutes - James Nyoraku Schlefer, grand master of the shakuhachi (Japanese flute), and Native flutist Ron Warren. Program highlights include Warren and Nyoraku Schlefer performing together in an original composition by Warren, an arrangement of Sacagawea from Philip Glass' Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Paul Barnes, and CEC artistic director Victoria Bond's Rashomon for string trio and shakuhachi with violinist Pauline Kim Harris.

Program James Nyoraku Schlefer Sidewalk Dances Ron Warren Lunas y Agua No.5 (Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi; Warren, native flute) Philip Glass, arr. Barnes: Sacagawea (from Piano Concerto No. 2 “After Lewis and Clark”) for Native flute, cello, and piano Victoria Bond Rashomon Warren Love Song for This Earth Warren The Way of Mountains and Desert (NY Premiere) Warren Beads